tectis

tectis is a Latin form of tego, meaning “cover, protect, hide”.

It can also be a form of tectum, “roof; house”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or perfect passive participle ablative plural feminine or perfect passive participle ablative plural masculine.

Found 263 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.45.7: Vacua castra hostium Caesar conspicatus tectis insignibus suorum occultatisque signis militaribus raros milites, ne ex oppido animadverterentur, ex maioribus castris in minora traducit legatisque, quos singulis legionibus praefecerat, quid fieri velit ostendit:

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.85: … am confugisset, hostilis manus interemit. hic si vivis filiis incolumi regno occidisset astánte ope bárbarica Tectís caelatis láqueatis, utrum tandem a bonis an a malis discessisset? tum profecto videretur a bonis. at certe ei …

Martial, Epigrammata 1.82.4: Tectis nam modo Regulus sub illis

All forms of tego (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.